" target="_blank">Share this Page

Learning

Don't lie, don't cheat, don't be lazy (Quechua - Inca chief)

We must protect the forests for our children, grandchildren and children yet to be born. We must protect the forests for those who can't speak for themselves such as the birds, fish and trees. Qwatsinas chief - Nuxalk nation

To learn is to change. Education, whether it involves books, body, or behavior, is a process that changes the learner. It doesn't have to end at college graduation or at age forty or sixty or eighty, and the best learning of all involves learning how to learn--that is, to change. The lifelong learner is essentially one who has learned to deal with homeostasis, simply because he or she is doing it all the time. (George Leonard, Mastery)

Our minds become almost photographic when what we learn is:

1. Based on a felt need.
2. Associated with values we feel deeply about.
3. Tied into an existing framework of knowledge.

(Roger Merrill, Connections)

At the core of active learning is a deceptively simple requirement: students must be personally invested in the learning process. (David Garvin)

Organizations learn only through individuals who learn. Individual learning does not guarantee organizational learning. But without it no organizational learning occurs. (Peter Senge)

Innovative Learning...

• Anticipation = being active and imaginative rather than passive & habitual.
• Learning by listening to others.
• Participation: shaping events, rather than being shaped by them.

(Warren Bennis)

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts. (John Wooden)

It's amazing how much we can learn from those who apparently have nothing to teach.

"The most beautiful thing in the world is, precisely, the conjunction of learning and inspiration." (Wanda Landowska)

We take other men's knowledge and opinions upon trust; which is idle and superficial learning. We must make it our own. (Michael Eyquim de Montaigue, Essays)

To learn, you must want to be taught. (Proverbs 12:1)

If you want to get the most from your brain...use it! Make the most of it! (Kevin Eikenberry)

The process of making something our own is called learning. (Peter McWilliams, Wealth 101)

The process of learning can be given in four steps:

1. Act.
2. Look for the mistakes (criticize).
3. Learn how to do it better next time.
4. Go to 1.

(from Do It!)

One of the marvelous things about life is that any gaps in your education can be filled, whatever your age or situation, by reading and thinking about what you read. (Warren Bennis, On Becoming A Leader)

No matter what happens to me, I'm going to learn something useful from it.

The burden of teaching is on the person who wants to teach... the burden of learning is on the person who wants to learn... (Jo Milburn Smith)

After you've done all you can to learn a new skill or to broaden your knowledge, you've earned the right to be proud of your efforts regardless of the grade you receive. (Remembering this point will help you become consistent and dependable, instilling in you a sense of self-worth, and all of these qualities are far more important that sheer brilliance. (Wess Roberts, Straight A's Never Made Anybody Rich)

Real learning gets to the heart of what it means to be human. Through learning we re-create ourselves. Through learning we become able to do something we never were able to do. Through learning we re-perceive the world and our relationship to it. Through learning we extend our capacity to create, to be part of the generative process of life. (Peter Senge, The Fifth Discipline)

Learning is by no means something we are supposed to do only from the ages of 5 to 21, in buildings called schools, but rather that it is a lifelong process, the proper conduct of which is not only absolutely necessary for the physical survival of individuals but for the survival of entire species. (Steve Allen)

Learning is the core of work. All people have two jobs: (a) their daily task; and (b) improving the reliability of processes by which they do their work. (John J. Sherwood)

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. (Henry Ford)

"It is in knowledge as in swimming: he who flounders and splashes on the surface makes more noise, and attracts more attention, than the pearl diver who quietly dives in quest of treasures to the bottom." (Washington Irving)

Get to know what it is you don't know as fast as you can. (Robert Miller, The Super Manager)

The learning process of the young child provides a beautiful metaphor for the learning challenge faced by us all: to continually expand our awareness and understanding, to see more and more of the interdependencies between actions and our reality, to see more and more of our connectedness to the world around us. We will probably never perceive fully the multiple ways in which we influence our reality, but simply being open to the possibility is enough to free our thinking. (Peter Senge, The Fifth Discipline)

That's what learning is, after all: not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it, and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning. (Richard Bach)

Suppose you were taking a course in parachuting and there were 100 things to learn to do successfully; you correctly identified 99 of these 100 items on the written test. But on your first jump, you couldn't remember how to pull the rip cord, which was the item you missed. You'd probably earn a posthumous A for the course from most teachers, but it wouldn't bring you back from the dead. If you want to jump safely, worry less about your test score and worry about what's important and what's not. Then learn and do the important things. (Wess Roberts, Straight A's Never Made Anybody Rich)

"We learn music, for example, by restricting the whole range of tone and rhythm to a notation of fixed tonal and rhythmic intervals--a notation which is incapable of representing Oriental music. But the Oriental musician has a rough notation which he uses only as a reminder of a melody," said Alan Watts in The Wisdom of Insecurity. "He learns music, not by reading notes, but by listening to the performance of a teacher, getting the 'feel' of it, and copying him, and this enables him to acquire rhythmic and tonal sophistication's matched only by those Western jazz-artists who use the same approach." (Richard Saul Wurman, Follow the Yellow Brick Road)

Learning begins with a problem and ends with a solution.

A friend of mine, visiting a school, was asked to examine a young class in geography. Glancing at the book, she said: "Suppose you should dig a hole in the ground, hundreds of feet deep, how should you find it at the bottom,-- warmer or colder than on top?"None of the class replying, the teacher said: "I'm sure they know, but I think you don't ask the question quite rightly. Let me try." So, taking the book, she asked: "In what condition is the interior of the globe?" and received the immediate answer from half the class at once: "The interior of the globe is in a condition of igneous fusion." (William James, Talks to Teachers)

Teach application! (Kevin Eikenberry)

He who is afraid to ask is ashamed of learning.

We are taught that there is a single way of learning--wholesale memorization, whether you are interested or not. So students must regurgitate the information on a piece of paper called a test and soon forget it. Fortunately, there are alternatives; there are even opposites, such as empowering yourself to learn, making your own choices based on your own interests. (Richard Saul Wurman, Follow the Yellow Brick Road)

Imagine the difference between a newborn infant and a two-year-old. An infant cannot walk, talk, coordinate its body, control its bowels, eat solid food, understand language or see very well. By two, the child is well on the way to mastering all these. That's how much learning a human can do in two years. That same transformational amount of learning can take place in any similar period of time. In fact, as an adult, we can learn even faster. All it takes is commitment and willingness. (Peter McWilliams)

"'Come over this afternoon and play croquet,' said Irina Cherkassova. "'I don't know the game,' replied Flapping Eagle. "'Then it will be instructive,' she smiled. 'When you play a game you don't understand, it teaches you a great deal about yourself and your limitations.'" (Salman Rushdie, Grimus)

In this light, you can see that those upward surges on the mastery curve are by no means the only time anything significant or exciting is happening. Learning generally occurs in stages. A stage ends when the habitual system has been programmed to the new task, and the cognitive and effort systems have withdrawn. This means you can perform the task without making a special effort to think of its separate parts. At this point, there's an apparent spurt of learning. But this learning has been going on all along. (George Leonard, Mastery)

No reception without reaction, no impression without correlative expression-- this is the maxim which the teacher ought never to forget. (William James)

" target="_blank">Share this Page